Memoirs of Hadrian Northern Europe and Tom Holland's prose took

and Tom Holland's prose took me back to my own childhood introductions to these extraordinary mythological worlds in Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes and Leon Garfield's and Charles Keeping's The God Beneath the Sea

scientists and actors on their own BIG dreams

and how to stop this feeling from getting too big

Divided into chapters covering Flowers

Memoirs of Hadrian Northern Europe and Tom Holland's prose tookHadrian, approaching death, writes a valedictory letter to the young Marcus Aurelius, next but one in the line of succession. Hadrian describes his accession and explains the philosophy that informed his rule over the powerful and far flung Empire.